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Day’s End

2020-12-28T13:56:42-07:00

              He  knew his star rose before his birth                                                 Galib                                                 As if – near the end of my days – I stepped [...]

Day’s End2020-12-28T13:56:42-07:00

Moldering Along

2020-12-28T13:02:16-07:00

Moldering along in the desert, trying to work, live, worry about the irrigation system, is that tree okay, revise poem, think about line breaks, read  the news, translate a poem, [...]

Moldering Along2020-12-28T13:02:16-07:00

At Eighty Eight

2020-12-05T14:45:52-07:00

  It has become familiar You feel it through the mattress – a tremor   and the way it lurches toward you in a fall   Do you fear the [...]

At Eighty Eight2020-12-05T14:45:52-07:00

Aubade II

2020-12-05T14:42:03-07:00

  Upward from the damp spore-aired forest floor   an ibis-white light burst between the thighs of tree   on its blue dot in the cosmic rainbow    

Aubade II2020-12-05T14:42:03-07:00

East Wind

2020-10-02T12:58:05-07:00

  Even the east wind cannot bear it any longer; it turns into a secret light...   The Terrace of Yen Li Shang-yin     Dawn   already sad I cast [...]

East Wind2020-10-02T12:58:05-07:00

Against Entropy

2020-10-02T12:45:25-07:00

You don't talk to the dead you talk at them setting the story aright   a canoe overturned in rapids belongings sodden tied down by intention   to survive words [...]

Against Entropy2020-10-02T12:45:25-07:00

Death

2020-08-26T17:19:51-07:00

                                    To an old man what is more natural                                     than to die?                                                                         Cicero     Individuals die   species die the fleeting made eternal through incessant change yet how [...]

Death2020-08-26T17:19:51-07:00

Havoc

2020-08-26T17:04:43-07:00

What havoc! even the winds and seas are in revolt in this best of all possible worlds   where peace is only possible in intimacy cultivate your own garden   [...]

Havoc2020-08-26T17:04:43-07:00

The Second Hand (Antiphone)

2020-06-02T16:12:32-07:00

She asks what is sacred answers herself   a mint stem's naked rootlets in a waterglass a second hand clicking   blackwings plunging through an ocean of air   a [...]

The Second Hand (Antiphone)2020-06-02T16:12:32-07:00

Radiance Remembered

2020-04-26T14:46:48-07:00

It was Rabbit you blamed for eating the primrose In reality it was Squirrel munching and digging with his sharp rodent claws excavator   acrobat evoking laughter his sandy-tan belly hugging [...]

Radiance Remembered2020-04-26T14:46:48-07:00
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